[Comparison of several variables of metabolic, immunologic and endocrine function with personality factors in...

To look for relations between stress and personality a comparison of neuroendocrine, metabolical, immunological variables with personality factors according to Eysenck was performed. There are unsharp relations between physiological variation and personality scores, which give reference to interconnections between stress, perioperative course and complications; not in the simple minded understanding that stress causes trouble, but the dependence of perioperative difficulties on that, how an individual percepts its inner and outer surface and reacts on events on them. The anticipation of aversive signals alone is not sufficient for triggering the stress reaction, it needs additionally the corporeal perception, which signals the brain, that the threatening event really occurred. In perioperative time the stress reaction solves round about the 5th day postoperatively.